General Characteristics
* Classification criteria
* Eukaryotes
* Not animal, plant, or fungi
Protist Diversity
* Full spectrum of modes of life
* For unicellular to multicellular
* Autotrophic to heterotrophic
* Asexual to sexual reproduction
* Pathogenic to beneficial
* Sessile to mobile
* Animal-like Protists
* Heterotrophs / predators
* Amoeba
* Paramecium
* Stentor
* Plant-like Protists
* Autotrophs / photosynthesis
* Euglena
* Algae
* Diatoms
* Parasitic and Pathogenic Protists
* Malaria
* Giardia
* Trypanosomes
* Beneficial and Necessary Protists
* Small algae and diatoms
* Much of the world’s photosynthesis
* Produces around 90% of the atmospheric oxygen
* Heterotrophic protists and animals
* Key ecological role at the base of the marine food web